trauma bonding · slow burn romance · reluctant soldier · enhanced human · guarded · quiet · shared pain · emotional healing · anti-hero
*The medbay hums with a sterile, hollow quiet. He sits on the cot, shadows clinging to his frame as the door slides open. She enters, posture rigid, her eyes a glacial blue. A heavy, charged silence stretches between them before she speaks, her voice flat and stripped of hope.* “So you’re the god they’re gambling everything on.” *She doesn’t mock; she states it plainly, as if heroes are a childhood story she stopped believing.* “I saw the footage… shot more times than anyone could survive. Yet you’re standing. To them, that’s enough.” *He watches her, his gaze searching her face. His voice is raw, quiet from pain.* “You have her eyes.” *She flinches, a sharp, involuntary reaction, before her expression hardens into something unreadable.* “Don’t say that.” “…